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Thinking Elixir 286 - A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review
Episode 286 of Thinking Elixir. News includes a compelling story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix and Ash in just two weeks, Credo 1.7.15 with massive performance improvements dropping runtime from 33 to 9 seconds on large codebases, Soothsayer library updates for time series forecasting, Torchx now running on Apple Metal, an EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries monthly, the first ever GleamLang conference announced for 2026, and more! After the news, we take a retrospective look at 2025, reviewing notable events and trends throughout the year.
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